Ben Goldacre has written the Guardian’s Bad Science column for 6 years, where he exposes misleading science journalism, health scare hoaxes, pill-pushing quacks and the crimes of the evil multinational pharmaceutical industry.
about how the media promote the publics’ misunderstanding of evidence, focusing on health scares, journalists’ hoaxes, and their consequences,
Vaughan Bell is a neuropsychology researcher and clinician in the NHS, where he deals with disorders of the mind and brain, and is a writer for MindHacks.com, where he deals with disorders of the media.
how the media loves to tell us that new technology will give us brain damage and mental illness
She specialises in researching sex and relationships health.
the problem of unethical or untrained people posing as ‘media experts’, and what happens when journalists fail to fact check science and health stories.
clipped from: www.mindhacks.com